Development of Bursa Malaysia as an IPO Market

Hon Wei Leow () and Wee Yeap Lau
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Hon Wei Leow: UCSI University

Chapter Chapter 1 in New Initiatives in the Malaysian Capital Market, 2024, pp 1-14 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the history of Bursa Malaysia as an IPO Market. It explains the types of initial public offerings (IPO), setting of offer price, timeline, IPO pricing anomaly, and current statistics of listing in the Malaysian stock exchange. Next, this chapter also provides some evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on the IPO. Despite the pandemic, the LEAP Market has shown some positive performance. The chapter concludes by discussing the challenges faced by the Malaysia stock market.

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Initial return; Pricing Anomaly; Bursa Malaysia; Asian financial crisis; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-0980-9_1

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